Man who stalked MSP is banned from Dundee to protect victim

A stalker who bombarded MSP Shona Robison’s office with calls, emails and social media posts has been banned from contacting her and entering Dundee.

Ala Elbilbaisi persistently asked to meet the Dundee East politician and repeatedly called her office to ask when she would be in.

He also contacted Ms Robison’s office just an hour after being released from a psychiatric ward in Glasgow’s Gartnavel Hospital.

At Dundee Sheriff Court, Elbilbaisi was placed on a non-harassment order designed to keep him away from Ms Robison for the next five years.

The 35-year-old, currently on hospital remand at the Rowanbank Clinic in Glasgow, was previously found guilty of stalking the former health minister.

In August 2019, he was convicted of making a series of calls to Ms Robison’s constituency office on Balunie Drive between October 11 2018 and March 14 last year.

Elbilbaisi also posted abusive and threatening comments on social media regarding the politician.

Elbilbaisi returned to the dock from custody for sentencing before Sheriff Lorna Drummond.

Sentence had previously been deferred on multiple occasions for psychiatric reports to be obtained.

Sheriff Drummond ruled that the punishment part of Elbilbaisi’s sentence had been the four months he had spent on remand.

A non-harassment order was imposed on Elbilbaisi ordering him not to enter Dundee, not to approach or contact Ms Robison or any of her staff and not to make any mention of her on any public forum.

Ala Elbilbaisi was placed on a nonharassment order.